Bootstrap
Providers of formal CS education to girls and underrepresented students in grades 6-12. Bootstrap's free materials include a nine-unit algebra course that applies mathematical concepts and programming principles to the creation of a simple 3-character
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Bowland Maths - Bowland Charitable Trust
Case study problems and lessons designed to develop thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills in UK math pupils ages 11-14. In particular, download series of stand-alone assessment items that challenge students to estimate the number of descendants
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Boxes and Bags - Aunt Annie's Crafts
Five projects that are fun to make and teach some basics of geometry: Snowflakes, Geometric Solids, and More Geometric Solids work well in gift wrapping; Flexagons and Tangrams make nice gifts. All of the projects can also be incorporated into lesson
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Boxplots in Excel - Neville Hunt, Coventry University
A method for using Microsoft Excel to create boxplots, or box and whisker diagrams, which provide a simple graphical summary of a set of data. Boxplots show a measures of central location (the median), two measures of dispersion (the range and inter-quartile
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BrainBashers - Kevin N. Stone
A collection of logic, language and math puzzles, in a choice of easy/medium/hard. Rate the puzzles; show their answers. Logic puzzles include Einstein's Puzzle. Play games of strategy, such as "Four in a Row" (also known as "Connect Four") or games based
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Brainers - PedagoNet
More than 60 word problems and puzzles designed to develop logic and problem-solving skills. Submit your answers and suggestions to become part of the Wall of Fame. Site is in English, French, and Spanish.
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Brainwave - Wognum Art
Ten visual puzzles, to test your visual and reasoning skills. Most have to do with symmetry recognition. There is a "top 5% brain" award to those who earn ten "smart bulbs."
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Brainy Figuring - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
In the May 7 Science, Dehaene and collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology present the first hard evidence that two quite different modes of brain activity underlie our inborn capacity for mathematics. Their study indicates that learning
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Break-Tru Software - David Giordano
Math shareware and freeware downloads for the PC include Quick Conversion, which converts distance measures such as inches, feet, yards, rods, furlongs, miles, and leagues to and from metric units such as meters; Fractions n Decimals, which converts mixed
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Bret Victor
From the creator of Kill Math, Victor's "umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration" in pursuit of a "widely-usable, insight-generating
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Bricks Activity - Suzanne Alejandre
A classroom activity (also called the Masonry Problem; a variation on polyominoes) aligned to the NCTM and California Standards, to be explored through manipulatives (dominoes). Students explore different possibilities of making brick walls with and without
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Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)
Creating pathways for underserved students from low-income neighborhoods across New York City to become scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists by providing them organizational help, academic counseling, academic help, mentorship,
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Bridging The Gap - Nicora Placa
Blog by a former elementary and middle school math teacher pursuing a Ph.D. in teaching and learning. Posts, which date back to April, 2013, have included "The subway ad that changed my life," "Transforming the Teaching Profession: It starts with RESPECT,"
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BrokenAirplane.com - Phil Wagner
Blog of "tips and ideas that you can use in your classroom immediately, and suggestions to help you, no matter your teaching or technology experience." Posts, which date back to June, 2010, have included "Math Project - Slope Art," "SAM Animation Is the
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b's law - Brian Lawler
Blog begun March, 2011, by a professor of math education at California State University San Marcos. Posts, which "try to disrupt," have included "continued reaction to tracking," "The Problem of the Skateboarder Problem in IMP," "A Deconstruction of Learning
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bugman123.com - Paul Nylander
Tessellations, gear spheres, hyperbolic geometry, fractals, hypercomplex fractals, minimal surfaces, and more original mathematical artwork. See also Nylander's simulations of physics phenomena such as the magnetic field of a solenoid, 2D wave-particles,
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Building a Virtual Museum Community - Jamie McKenzie
Virtual museums provide an excellent opportunity for museums to partner with schools. The Bellingham (WA) public schools recognized the potential of a partnership with the Whatcom County Museum of History and Art in Fall of 1995. This article describes
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Building Big - WGBH Educational Foundation
Explore great feats of engineering and the ingenuity of the engineers, architects, and builders who designed and built them. Learn about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels; use Flash interactive engineering labs to experiment with forces,
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Byte Works, Inc.
Developers of the apps iPhone Calculator, a scientific/logic/conversion calculator; and techBASIC, which takes advantage of the iPod's, iPhone's, and iPad's built-in accelerometers, gyroscopes, or magnetometers to collect information, process it with
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